Product Description: Environmental insiders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus triggered a firestorm of controversy with their self-published essay, "The Death of Environmentalism." In it, they argued that global warming is far more complex than past pollution problems...read more

Product Description: President Kennedy has selected CIA super-secret agent Blackford Oakes to meet with Che Guevara inside Castros Cuba. But the Communists have a double-cross in mind, with terrifying consequences.

Product Description: Getting paid to be hit is one thing. Getting killed is something else. Duffy Dombrowski is an upstate New York social worker ― and professional sparring partner. He’s just accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov ― in Las Vegas! In Sin City with his obstinate basset hound and four buddies, however, Duffy learns that Vegas ― and Boris ― have a dark side, and before he knows it, his trip turns into a nightmare...read more

Product Description: Getting paid to be hit is one thing. Getting killed is something else. Duffy Dombrowski is an upstate New York social worker ― and professional sparring partner. He’s just accepted a dream job: chief sparring partner for Russian heavyweight contender Boris Rusakov ― in Las Vegas! In Sin City with his obstinate basset hound and four buddies, however, Duffy learns that Vegas ― and Boris ― have a dark side, and before he knows it, his trip turns into a nightmare...read more

Product Description: On May 24, 1940, Hitler's armies were on the brink of a shattering military victory, and 400,000 Allied troops were pinned against the coast of Dunkirk. But just eleven days later, 338,000 had been successfully evacuated. This is how it happened.

Police Sergeant Lou Boldt heads a special task force within Seattle’s Homicide bureau. His job: find and stop the Cross Killer, a twisted, perverse serial murderer who has eluded police for six months and paralyzed the city. But when a body washes up on the shore of Puget Sound, Boldt thinks the killer has finally made a mistake. This body shows some of the work of the Cross Killer ― but a job badly botched. Did this woman die while trying to escape? Did she knowingly jump in the water to preserve a clue? And is she now desperately trying to tell Boldt something? With the help of the alluring Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist, Boldt pieces together the complex puzzle ― and the listener is taken along on a journey into the mind of a killer, and into the day-by-day nuts and bolts of police work, that is among the best in modern crime fiction. Undercurrents is a roller-coaster ride in the dark that will intrigue, startle, and satisfy.

Product Description: At The Shelter, no one judges the runaway teens who come in off the rainy Seattle streets. Volunteers, like police psychologist Daphne Matthews, want only to rescue and rebuild lives. Being a cop, Daphne thinks she's seen it all. But, as best-selling author Ridley Pearson's edge-of-the-seat thriller opens, what she encounters in a sixteen-year-old girl chills her in a way she thought a case no longer could...read more

Product Description: An inconvenient reassignment has landed Reykjavík crime reporter Einar in the small northern town of Akureyri, where his biggest story to date has been the college stage production of Loftur the Sorcerer, an Icelandic folktale of ambition and greed...read more

Product Description: An inconvenient reassignment has landed Reykjavík crime reporter Einar in the small northern town of Akureyri, where his biggest story to date has been the college stage production of Loftur the Sorcerer, an Icelandic folktale of ambition and greed...read more

Product Description: Rollie Waters is the smartest guy in any room. He knows all the angles, and he’s never fewer than two steps ahead of trouble ― a skill he learned from the con-artist father who raised him, though he hasn’t seen him in years...read more

Product Description: Under the pseudonym S.S. Van Dine, Wright has booked passage on what would be the luxury liner’s disastrous final crossing. He claims to be interviewing celebrity passengers, but the reporter is actually investigating rumors that the ship is ferrying an illegal cache of weapons to aid the British war against Germany...read more

Product Description: Does your competitor always get the sale, even though your products and service are just as good, if not better? Why are some companies’ once-trusted brands now deemed worthless? Do you have to continually sell to your existing customers as though they are brand new ones? After many years of diligent research and work with a wide range of clients, consultant and speaker C...read more

Product Description: At first, Rachel Vasquez found her new job working for private detective Clayton Guthrie promising. He got her a gun and a license and took her to target practice. But lately she’s just been doing surveillance, and it’s not her idea of an exciting time...read more

Product Description: We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists...read more

Product Description: Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself―what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger...read more

Product Description: Practical ways to turn any sensitive, emotional, or confrontational workplace conversation into a positive exchange that benefits all. Overcoming Fake Talk explains why we often fail at our most important communications and offers proven advice for turning challenging confrontations into rewarding exchanges that foster collaboration, improve performance, and achieve results...read more

Product Description: “I can’t believe I ate a seal. And really enjoyed it.”Moments after venture capitalist Gloria Baradaran experiences what it’s like to be a polar bear — really be a polar bear — she knows she’s found something revolutionary. Farley Rutherford and his team — migraine-tortured neurologist “Chopper” Vittori and uber-geek engineer Ringo Hayes — have created sensory saturation, a virtual reality system that drops users into the psyches of endangered animals as they fight for survival, and they believe the profound experience could turn the indifferent masses into avid environmentalists...read more

Product Description: Rollie Waters is the smartest guy in any room. He knows all the angles, and he’s never fewer than two steps ahead of trouble — a skill he learned from the con-artist father who raised him, though he hasn’t seen him in years...read more

Product Description: While duck hunting one morning, childless, middle-aged Nathan McCann finds a newborn abandoned in the woods. To his shock, the child―wrapped in a sweater and wearing a tiny knitted hat―is still alive. To his wife’s shock, Nathan wants to adopt the boy…but the child’s grandmother steps in...read more